Horses were meant to be a dominant intelligent species. That is the gist of some work done by our "Dolphin Girl" Irlene Davis. She had come home from her work out at Raratonga and happened to meet my shaman's guide, a horse that has been with me since 1984. I named him Bucephalus after the horse ridden by Alexander the Great. I have had conversations with him in his dimension, but I am embarrassed to say I never asked about him about himself.
Well, Irlene did. It turns out that Bucephalus is an ethereal being who was once a real, no-kidding member of the equine family some millions of years ago. This particular member has evaded the paleontologists so far;he and his kind lived in Northern America, apparently before a couple of the ice-ages. What is remarkable about Bucephalus' long-gone flesh-and-blood brain was that it was equipped for language skills, emotional intelligence and the ability to plan and use tools. Irlene said that his species, had it survived, would have been right there with dolphins, the corvidae and we humans. (the corvidae are crows, ravens, jay and I think, magpies) (yes, they have working intelligence)
Communicating with Bucephalus has always brought a very strong energy, hard to ignore. You can just bet I will be talking with him.